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Sir Terence Conran, author of ‘Storage - Get Organized’, offers furnishing and storage solutions for children’s rooms - from babies to teenagers.

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In general, when furnishing children’s rooms, it is best to avoid buying miniaturized storage furniture and items specifically designed for nursery use. Your child will not remain a baby for long, and such pieces will rarely earn their keep. Instead, think about flexible solutions that can be adapted to each stage of your child’s development.

Flexible storage solutions

All of the various types of storage detailed below are flexible enough to be put to a number of different uses as your child grows. Children grow not only in size, but also in their ability and interests, which is why versatile storage is so important. It is economic, too.

Bookcases

A freestanding bookcase provides invaluable storage for many types of possession, from a baby’s nappies (diapers) and toiletries to picture books, toys and games. A decently made, sturdy bookcase will see years of use, from babyhood through to adolescence. Wide-spaced shelves are more practical than narrow ones. Make sure that the bookcase is securely anchored to the wall - many little children use them as climbing frames and could become seriously injured if the bookcase and its contents toppled over.

Built-in shelving

A more considered solution is to line a wall with shelves, perhaps mounted on adjustable brackets. A huge proportion of what children own is shelvable, including items of clothing. Boxes and other containers used to store toys and games can also be shelved. When children are small, make sure that their favourite toys or what they use daily are kept lower down, where they can reach them easily.

Chest of drawers

Another all-purpose solution is the chest of drawers. A simple, well-made chest is a good early purchase. When your child is very young, you can use it as a means of storing nappies (diapers) and clothes, while the top can be a useful surface for a changing mat. Later on, a chest of drawers can house the bulk of a child’s wardrobe. Until children reach school age most of their clothing will not need to be hung up.

Containers

For the first year or so, you will probably find that most of your baby’s toys will fit into a single container. Choose one that is sturdy and portable, so that you can tidy up easily wherever your child is playing. Soon, however, you will reach the stage where one container is not enough. Stack plastic boxes in bright colours, wicker or rush baskets, stout cardboard boxes and similar designs are the mainstays of children’s storage. Games or toys with multiple parts can be organized into containers of different colours. Containers on castors can be wheeled under the bed. A larger lidded chest can be used to house dressing-up clothes for make-believe play.

Hanging storage

Clothes rails that are placed at a low level, Shaker-style pegs and hooks on the back of the door can be used for hanging up a variety of possessions which are in frequent use. While many items of clothing in the early years do not need to be hung up, hanging storage is a good idea for dressing gowns, aprons, washbags and outdoor gear, as well as sports equipment and games kits. When your children are sharing a room, give each one a set of pegs or a rail so that they can keep their belongings separate.

Display areas

Children are not minimalists. From a very early age, most enjoy seeing their most precious possessions out on view. A dedicated display area will provide a lasting source of visual delight. A portion of wall painted with blackboard paint may help to curb a child’s desire to ‘decorate’ the walls with magic markers. The tops of chests of drawers and open shelves are natural display areas for models and favourite toys. Consider putting up a pinboard so you can put your child’s most recent creative efforts out on view, along with photographs and other momentoes.

Teenagers enjoy plastering every available wall surface with stickers, posters, pictures and magazine clippings. By this stage, a single pinboard won’t provide enough surface area. Instead, you could line an entire wall with cork - or simply accept that after the collaging stage has passed redecoration will be in order.

Administrative centre

Keep important documents relating to your children, such as birth certificates, immunization records and school reports, in an accessible file. Routine or daily administration, such as notices, schedules and school letters, should be gathered together in one place - on your desk, in the kitchen or wherever you tackle household matters. A calendar put up in a prominent position can serve as a useful reminder of key dates.

This is an extract from Terence Conran’s ‘Storage - Get Organized.’



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Located in Brooklyn, Frankel’s furniture store offers elegant and stylish furniture that is very reasonably priced, such that everyone astonished by the beauty of their products can actually purchase them and decorate their home. They currently cater to the people located in and around New York City.

The variety of furniture they offer is mind blowing. The store deals with furniture from a large range of furniture manufacturers, thereby giving the customer more than enough choices to pick from. Not many furniture stores today can offer this kind of a variety at such a reasonable price. You just need to name the manufacturer, and it’s almost guaranteed that you’ll be able to find their products at Frankel’s. What more can you ask for?

The store currently offers wall units and furniture for the dining, bedroom, and children’s rooms. Although wall units are their specialty, in each of these categories, you again have a multitude of options and varieties to choose from. In addition to home furniture, the store also plans on offering a wide range of office furniture. This effort will make it a complete one stop shop for all home and office needs. Custom Kitchen ranges are in the pipeline and once this becomes available, the store should see a lot more interested customers.

If you’re interested in purchasing their elegant bookcases, you will be able to get one anywhere between $1595 and $6950 depending on the size of the bookcase and the type of wood used. Similarly, their dressers range from $450 to $550 and mirrors from $150 to $210. Their master beds cost about $5750 and the kids’ bedroom sets at $5000.

Many of the furniture are even available in attractive two-tone designs that make the furniture more beautiful and appealing. You will find furniture esthetically crafted in cherry maple, walnut mahogany, hardwood, and many more quality woods.

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i like the new high-gloss dark brown furniture, like the modern platform beds and bookcases. unfortunately, i can’t afford to buy them. does anyone know how i would paint plain wood furniture to make it high-gloss and dark brown?

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I don’t understand how I go through the bookcases to see my neighbors?

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Bill William asked:


Organization is not everyone’s strong suit. While most people would like their homes to be pristine and put together, the challenges of daily life often get in the way of people putting their things in order. Keeping an entire house in order all of the time is nearly impossible for most working people, but there are a few things they can do to bring some structure to their home. Learning how to organize a bookcase is a great place to start. Tackling a bookcase is a great first step towards bringing some organization to the rest of the house.

To start, a person should gather everything they want to place in the bookcase. This most likely entails sorting through all of the existing stuff that is already in and around the bookcase. All the things that are gathered together should be divided into groups. One group should be the items that a person wants to save, another are things that should be thrown away, a third group should consist of things that should be donated, and the final group is made up of things that need to be filed away. Knowing exactly what will be going into the bookcase is the first, very important step when learning how to organize a bookcase.

A person should act immediately with the piles that they create so that they do not simply move stuff around their house without ever getting around to doing anything with it. Items that are to be thrown out should go into the trash right away. Things that are headed for donation should be put in a bag and placed in the car where it will be ready and waiting the next time a person gets in their car to head out on errands. The pile for filing should be filed right away in whatever system a person has, and if one is not already in place then creating one is another great way to bring order to a home. The final pile is made up of the things that are to go in the bookcase. The next part of how to organize a bookcase is making sure all of items are placed in the bookcase correctly.

As the name might suggest, books should be the main item being housed in the bookcase. While people can place little knickknacks and decorations in the bookcase, books should be the main attraction. The books that are to be put in the bookcase should be organized by topic and size. Books that a person is more likely to read should be placed on higher shelves so they are easier to see and reach. When a person determines which books are the ones that are the most readable, they should place them on the shelves according to size. The tallest books should be placed on the left, gradually moving downward to the shortest books on the right hand side. Knowing where to place the books is essential when learning how to organize a bookcase.

Any little items that a person wishes to place on their bookcase for decoration should be scattered throughout the shelves so it does not appear too cluttered. Once everything has been put in its proper place, the bookcase should look absolutely lovely. After learning how to organize a bookcase, people can move on to the rest of their home, applying some of the same lessons to other areas that need organizing.



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